Huge influential oil companies like EXXON-MOBIL made profits of close to US$90 million per day in profits last year. Racking in almost US$33 Billion for the year. Now, who in their right mind can allow such a revenue stream to get suffocated by so called new technology?
Who says it'd be the oil companies pioneering this? There are many other companies who'd love to get into it, such as power companies.
Become? It's already at that state. Even serious, factual articles have huge sections at the end listing all the times they were referenced in Star Trek or Futurama.
Considering how much WoW lifted from the Tolkien-inspired fantasy genre, as well as all the other mmorpgs before it, I'd say that LOTR has every right to copy them.
Bad: Money is more worthless in this game than any other MMORPG. Somehow no newer MMORPGS seem to care to make an economy. If you get the best lewt in the game, your character will only be about 5-10% better than a storebought character even though you have lots of flashy stats.
That's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. This 'grind all day and night for the best equipment' is a RPG meme that had to die.
1. Bush changed the rules for counting the unemployed. 2. Many people are either limited to part-time, or have had to settle for a "job" at Walmart, or both.
A job at Walmart in America leaves you better off than most jobs in many countries. Even the poorest in America enjoy a very high standard of living.
Still a bunch higher than when Bush took office. Big surprise that an oilman in the oval office led to higher prices.
An American complaining about gas prices is like an eskimo complaining it's too hot at the North Pole. You really should be grateful for the prices you pay.
That was true once. I don't believe it any more.
The only thing stopping you is the modern entitlement complex, whereby people sit at their computers whining about how unfair it all is, rather than trying to make something of their lives.
The bastards in Washington are destroying this country.
Can you say 'hyperbole'? America has never been better off. Ever.
Well it means there is such a thing as free, over-the-air TV. Newspapers and magazines are much cheaper, and commercial sponsorship helps many small businesses. How is that ruining mediums?
Um, you can play with tons of different vehicles or tracks and terrain on video games
Yet none of those tracks or terrains are as fun as driving round plantpots and under cars.
How much work is required setting up obstacle cources and then finishing it afterwords?
Building the obstacle course is more fun than navigating it, everyone knows that. Selecting a track from a menu just doesn't compare to spending hours stacking up bricks and planks of wood.
1) SD porn covers up the cellulite, the sagging, the tiredness, etc. With the ridiculously clear picture HD shows, all of these signs of aging are perfectly visible.
Yes, you are correct in that they are an equal driving force in the movies, but just because they are equal does NOT mean that we should use the masculine form of the word to speak of women.
Actor is pretty gender neutral. It must means 'someone who acts'.
I'm not talking about whether people are smart, or capable, or able to do brilliant research. I'm talking about handling the tedious monotony of 2 month long patrols without surfacing.
If you're not capable or smart, what is the use in being able to cope with being crammed in a box? You may as well send a monkey.
You want to send a team into space on an extended mission that will be complete. Who do you send? Pilots and Scientists, or the men/women you can trust with billions of dollars in hardware and nuclear weapons?
You'd need scientists to do the actual scientific work, and you'd need pilots to fly the thing. I don't see how a submarine crew would be any use in space. Yes, they can sit in a cramped space for a long time, but so can prisoners and zoo animals.
* where every see-pressure valve is, what it's for, and how to isolate it * where every major electrical system is, what it does, and where to isolate it. * The location and type of every single fire extinguisher, hose, air mask, etc. (we demonstrate this by taking a blind-folded walk of the sub with the sub-qualification examiners) * How all major systems work: electrical, hydraulic, pressurized air...... and lots more.
That's just basic memorisation, I don't think you can really compare it to the things an astronaut needs to know. They need expert knowledge in several fields, not knowing 'a little' about other peoples' jobs.
The difference is that Jobs has a very clear idea of what consumers want. My old mum isn't going to buy an XBox360 to watch TV on it. Nor am I for that matter.
People are used to having consoles in their living room connected to the TV. They aren't used to connecting computers to them.
There are already too many boxes connected to the TV, video player, DVD player, Sky/Freeview box, Xbox/PS2, people aren't going to want yet another box.
Wikipedia was created and is maintained by nerds, so there's obviously going to be a slant there.
I don't think gaming as a spectator sport will really take off anywhere outside of Korea. There's not much else to watch there other than minor league baseball, so there was a massive void to fill. In the west there are all sorts of real sports that are already massively popular.
The point about four hours is, that if you're paying a contractor $25 an hour, and this software saves him anything over four hours, then it's worth paying the $99.
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Who says it'd be the oil companies pioneering this? There are many other companies who'd love to get into it, such as power companies.
Why the hell would anyone type "google xxx" if you can simply use the search bar?
If his water's unmetered, what's wrong with that?
Become? It's already at that state. Even serious, factual articles have huge sections at the end listing all the times they were referenced in Star Trek or Futurama.
Considering how much WoW lifted from the Tolkien-inspired fantasy genre, as well as all the other mmorpgs before it, I'd say that LOTR has every right to copy them.
Of course, we can only hope to have the social mobility of a caste system.
Well it means there is such a thing as free, over-the-air TV. Newspapers and magazines are much cheaper, and commercial sponsorship helps many small businesses. How is that ruining mediums?
Not to mention computer games take up a hell of a lot less room.
There are already too many boxes connected to the TV, video player, DVD player, Sky/Freeview box, Xbox/PS2, people aren't going to want yet another box.
Wikipedia was created and is maintained by nerds, so there's obviously going to be a slant there.
I don't think gaming as a spectator sport will really take off anywhere outside of Korea. There's not much else to watch there other than minor league baseball, so there was a massive void to fill. In the west there are all sorts of real sports that are already massively popular.
The point about four hours is, that if you're paying a contractor $25 an hour, and this software saves him anything over four hours, then it's worth paying the $99.
OK, hold your phone upside down, and press the button in the top-left with your right thumb. Half the screen is obscured.